Athens After Empire

Ian Worthington is Professor of Ancient History of Macquarie University. He is the author of numerous books about ancient the ancient world, including, most recently, Ptolemy I: King and Pharaoh of Egypt, By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire, and Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece.

• Preface Maps Introduction: "This is the City of Hadrian and not of Theseus"1. Farewell to Freedom2. Under The Puppet Ruler: Demetrius of Phalerum3. Political and Civic Institutions4. Demetrius "The Besieger" and Athens5. Testing Macedonia6. Independence Day7. Enter Rome, Exit Macedonia8.Being Free without Freedom9. Social Life and Religion10. Sulla's Sack of Athens11. The End of "Hellenistic" Athens12. Augustus and Athens13. Tiberius to Hadrian14. Building A New Horizon?15. Hadrian's Arch TimelineBibliographyIndex

Ian Worthington's Athens After Empire shows how there has been a tendency to fixate on the heyday of famous ancient cities while the events before or after have been unfairly and misleadingly eclipsed. Paul Cartledge's excellent Hellenistic and Roman Sparta presents how such an approach distorted Sparta's enduring importance. Now, Worthington's splendid, learned, and highly readable volume will achieve the same for Athens. Worthington's aim is to demonstrate that Athens did not fade away or drop off the historical radar or even decline into oblivion, and he successfully proves his thesis.